December 2020 – Around the World in 80s Movies Podcast

The Hidden (1987) | Jack Sholder

December 25, 2020December 23, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

Michael Nouri stars as LAPD detective Tom Beck, who takes down a bank robber gone berserk in one of the bloodiest shootouts in department history. What Beck doesn’t know is that the culprit is actually being controlled by a parasite within his body that loves danger, money, speeding, and good ol’ rock-n-roll, and it can’t […]

Night of the Creeps (1986) | Fred Dekker

December 18, 2020December 17, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Jason Lively and Steve Marshall are the primary stars as Chris and J.C., a couple of nerdy college freshmen fraternity pledges who must steal a corpse as part of their initiation. They accidentally end up releasing a small army of leeches, jettisoned from an alien spacecraft, dormant in the cryogenic cadaver they find in the […]

Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987)

December 11, 2020December 11, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Revenge of the Nerds II begins with the nerds who formed Lambda Lambda Lambda at Adams College, leaders from an inclusive fraternity that overcame prejudice to become heroes, as witnessed in the first film. Now they must take their mission national at the United Fraternity Conference in Fort Lauderdale. There, they hope to increase the […]

Revenge of the Nerds (1984) | Jeff Kanew

December 4, 2020December 3, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Best friends Louis (Robert Carradine and Gilbert (Anthony Edwards) head off to Adams College together only to find that the jocks that belong to the fraternity called Alpha Beta have taken over the dorms after they burn down their own frat house. In order to stop having to live in the gym, the former dorm residents must […]